EU Expansion Hits
Bulgarian Roadblock

By

Frederick Kempe

Updated May 17, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

European citizens already wonder whether their European Union has grown too large, so Bulgaria's membership aspirations weren't helped by a high-profile contract killing in February in downtown Sofia of a well-known smuggler in a rain of bullets.

So perhaps it should be no surprise that the European Commission yesterday put off a decision whether Bulgaria and Romania can join the EU next year as planned -- giving them five more months...